Where Have You Lived...?

so I have something in common with Yankee..damn. 19th ward fro lyfe, yankee! Westsyde!

roch, ny....buff, ny...bad news, va...Portland, me

 

east coast (VA, NC, SC), Oahu and Maui. Would love to make it back to Maui (in the cards but will be retired by the time I get there). SC is the worst!

 

This is a good tread

Born in Philadelphia
Grew up in Telford, PA
Spent most summers and breaks with my grandparents and cousins in Stone Harbor or OC
St. Augustine Florida
Warwick, Rhode Island
Wakefield, Rhode Island
St. George, Utah
Wakefield, Rhode Island again
Bellingham, WA

Loved everywhere I lived and hated them all the same. Thought I hated Pennsylvania until I grew up and left. Pretty special place outside the city. St George was so conservative I would get chastised by the grocery store clerks for buying beer more than once a week, but the mountain biking, climbing, and open space was unreal

St Augustine i was a drunk ahole for 5 years and enjoyed the hell out of it, surfed constantly, fished constantly. Lack of money and no jobs drove me out.

Rhode Island is what I consider home, Spent most of my adult life there, met my wife, loved the surfing and fishing. Even had some fun mountain biking. Lack of opportunity to advance in my career and the taxes led us back out west.


Bellingham has been unbelievable for the past 4 months. Opportunites falling in my lap weekly, one of the best places in the world for mountain biking. Close enough to grab surf when Im jonesing. People are driven to be outside and excel their sport. Back Country snowboarding galore, Even now. This might be our final stop.

 

On the west coast, Fallbrook and Encinitas in California.
Here on the EC, over a decade on Nantucket, and it's been over a decade now in RI.
Also stationed in Kaneohe Bay Oahu, and went to school in Carbondale Il (SIU, go Saluki's).
Born in Tetovo Macedonia, and I saved the worst for last, raised on the south side of Chicago.
The south side was no joke, I can write a book. Gang bangers were a regular part of life. Hello Marine Corp bootcamp less than a month after I turned 18, best decision I made.
Best place? Tough one. Loved Encinitas, lived a stones throw from moonlight beach, loved sessions at swamis(when it wasn't crowded which was rare) then a surf movie at the La Paloma, meals at Alberto's( now it's gone) and drinking at the Saloon to the short stumble home, wake up, repeat. Worst part though was lack of work, illegal laborers literally lived off the side of the five, tough if your in the trades.
Nantucket was awesome for work, definitely the island of low hanging fruit, easy money, and if your single, lots and lots of girls(summer only). I loved the history of the place, really thought that it might be my final resting place.
But my kid is here in RI and Pt Judith is 5 minutes away. Life is good
On a side note my only real bucket list surf trip is a sh1tty crazy ass beach on the south side of Chicago that we used to hang at, you definitely wouldn't go to unless your from there, had a pier and sand beach and I remember a wave breaking there after a storm, before I ever surfed. I've seen plenty of lake surf vids, I know this spot hasen't been done. I keep thinking about it, finding the time when the conditions are right is the hard part. When Sandi hit the EC I almost bailed because the system went over the great lakes and thought it would be the time, but it was too hard to leave a guaranteed thing here on the EC.
I did spend a month on the Island of Kho Pha Nang in Thailand Yank, loved Thailand, but not sure about waves over there, it wasn't a surfing trip, it was purely a no shirt no shoes living on the super cheap till my visa ran out trip. I recommend you youngsters to look up the full moon party on that island, best party I've ever been to.

 

Hayduke, that sounds super sic!

 

What the fvck?? Are you a Beduin Arab, living out of a tent?? Or a Gypsy??

I am 66 years old, and lived in 3 places (PR, NH, ME). All 3 of them great places. Rather stay in one place and travel than move a lot, and not travel.
just opinion.

 

Nope--you at least ONE MORE, as we all do......

 

Funny you say that. I "Vacationed" in all the places I ended up moving because I wanted to see what it would be like to build a life. That being said, it hasnt been an easy road by any means. I have yet to have adult style finances, at this point I probably could have a couple down payments on properties with the money Ive spent moving.

To each his own though, wouldnt mind continuing the trend, but at the same time Im only getting older and less stoked to pack up and move.

 

True. It does get harder to move. We moved 2 years ago to the seacoast from being 35 miles inland. To some not worth the move, but to me, back to the ocean is back to home!!
The reason for my minimal moving - got married young, and career took precedence over my sporting activities. But I have always enjoyed where I live.
I have but one move left in me.....6 ft under.

 

Somewhat random thought: Reading this thread makes me think about how many of those moves happened (or were put on hold) back in 2008 when the economy tanked. The recession had a huge impact on the course of my life, and I think I'm better for it. I do wonder though, where I would have ended up if I never found myself in the middle of a financial crisis.

 

Slater's wave pool?

 

How about cremation? Toss your ashes out at The Belmar, or your break of choice?

Just a question?

 

Lived:

Niles MI
Grand Haven MI
Michigan City IN
Oshkosh WI
Sarasota FL
Gainesville FL
Breckenridge CO
Littleton CO
Lakewood CO
Denver CO
Auckland New Zealand
Durham NH
Hampton NH

Best:

Auckland New Zealand, I mean it's friggen New Zealand

Worst:

Michigan City IN, armpit of the Midwest, but I was too young to give a fvck,

 

Then Belmar will go flat forever......

 

The recession didn't directly have an impact on my life, but the time period that it happened was a huge transition period for me. It's amazing to think how different life is for me now than what it was then.

In 2007 I was living with a few roommates up in Bergen County. My uncle had died and I wanted to buy my dad out of their house in Ormond Beach Florida. The house was willed to the both of them when my grandmother died years earlier, but my uncle was living there for the almost 20 years between the time she died and he wound up dying. I wanted to buy my dad out of the house, but he told me we need to sell it and he'd give me half of the profit, which was still a fair deal. He was sick with cancer and knew he only had a short time to live himself. I wanted to move down there and into that house, it had been our family since the late 50's when my grandparents had it built. Then in 2008 I met a girl and she was living in Jacksonville, Florida at the time. We were seriously discussing and considering me moving down there with her. Then she wound up moving to Jersey and our fling soon ended afterwards. A few short months later, I met a great woman, moved to Cape May in 2008 for a brief period of time, started my own business in 2009, bought a house in Manasquan and moved there in 2010 (where I still am now) and then we got engaged. Got a really good job (significantly lower paying though) in 2011, decided to go out of business in 2013 because I didn't have the time to run it with my other job, she left me late in 2013 and here I am in 2017.

It's crazy how life changes. I think ''What if I went to Ormond Beach in 2007? What if I went to Jacksonville in 2008?''. I LOVE what I'm doing now, so I'm happy to be where I am in life right now.

 

Every decision we make has a ripple effect throughout our life, big or small. Sometimes small decisions have even larger consequences, be it good or bad.

 

Agreed. Moving is torture. Way overrated. That said I am planning on leaving NJ if retirement as planned in 2.9 years. Not that i'm counting.

I was simply born here, family, school, career, surf, but now the career is the only thing keeping Mrs. Beachbreak and i here. Kids are moved, plus grandchildren, so we have come to hate this jersey shore, the cold water, crowds, lifeguard beachbadge ****, and then sandy really finished it.

so we like Buxton, Cape May, Jacksonville/St. Augustine, and to the north Block Island. Maybe keep on doing cm/bi vacations, nfla in winter and buxton when that gets too hot.

I have lived here all my life, on the island most of it, but some over the bridge, and over the bridge i skated like surfing the asphalt/concrete wave until i could get back on the island. Skating anything resembling a wave. Hills, driveways, parking lots, drainage ditches, you name it.
I Cannot survive without the ocean within a 5 min walk/2 min bike without going nuts. Need waves. School and parents in my youth were the only thing that forced me off the island, but not since 25 years ago.

 

Ha, I launched my business in 2008. Fvck the recession.

 

agreed. we were able to afford our house cause of the recession/"housing crisis".